Setting the new European agenda for adult learning 2021-2030 : political mobilisation and the influence of advocacy coalitions

Milana, Marcella (author), Mikulec, Borut (author)

Following the COVID-19 pandemic, international organisations and governments have issued mitigation policies, and (re)oriented broader policy strategies to respond to new problematisations about the future. In this context, the education ministers of the European Union (EU) adopted a Council Resolution on a new European agenda for adult learning 2021-2030. Drawing on the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF), this paper examines the political mobilisation and agenda setting behind this Resolution through network ethnography and the analysis of belief systems. The findings point at an increased social dialogue, favoured by an ‘uncommon’ way – as by our informants – through which the Slovenian Ministry of Education pursued the agreed priority at EU level, while holding the rotating Presidency of the Council of the EU. While visibility of adult learning rose under COVID-19, advocacy coalitions formed at national (Slovenian) and European level facilitated stronger alignment in agenda setting among different actors towards a holistic approach that calls for inter-sectorial and multi-stakeholder collaboration.

• Language: English
• Keywords: andragogy, adult education, agenda setting, advocacy coalition framework, belief system, European Union
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2023
• Number of pages: Str. 205-228
• Numbering: Vol. 14, no. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-146995
• UDC: 374.7
• ISSN on article: 2000-7426
• DOI: 10.3384/rela.2000-7426.4637
• COBISS.SI-ID: 156064771
• Publication date in RUL: 19.06.2023

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: European journal for research on the education and learning of adults
• Publisher: Linköping University
• ISSN: 2000-7426
• COBISS.SI-ID: 50135650

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: izobraževanje odraslih, Evropska unija, andragogika, agenda, prepričanja, zagovorništvo, načrt